Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 685 505 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.91% 14.52% 9.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.34% 53.38% 40.94%
Number of salaries quoted 462 382 313
10th Percentile £26,825 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -0.79%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,417 946 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 18.44% 27.19% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 973 688 703
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -6.50% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,375
90th Percentile £90,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,110 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.85% -4.00% -3.85%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -1 203 £60,000 +9.09% 95
Essex -1 160 £40,000 +14.29% 62
Cambridgeshire -9 138 £53,000 +49.30% 85
Suffolk +28 86 £46,370 -7.26% 18
Norfolk +3 69 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Bedfordshire -17 27 £37,500 -22.68% 27
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 108 (15.77%) SharePoint
2 53 (7.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.19%) WordPress
4 7 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.44%) IIS
6 3 (0.44%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Confluence
7 2 (0.29%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 51 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.29%) Infor M3
2 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.29%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 204 (29.78%) Microsoft 365
2 121 (17.66%) Entra ID
3 104 (15.18%) Power Platform
4 94 (13.72%) Azure AI
5 80 (11.68%) AWS
6 79 (11.53%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (9.20%) OneDrive
8 38 (5.55%) PowerApps
9 35 (5.11%) Power Automate
10 32 (4.67%) GitHub
11 31 (4.53%) Azure Logic Apps
12 26 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (3.36%) GCP
14 21 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
15 19 (2.77%) SaaS
16 18 (2.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 18 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
17 17 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 13 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.09%) Firewall
2 65 (9.49%) DNS
3 54 (7.88%) VPN
4 50 (7.30%) DHCP
5 35 (5.11%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.34%) Internet
6 16 (2.34%) Wireless
7 13 (1.90%) MQTT
8 12 (1.75%) VLAN
8 12 (1.75%) WAN
9 11 (1.61%) Network Security
9 11 (1.61%) VoIP
10 10 (1.46%) LAN
11 7 (1.02%) Broadband
11 7 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.73%) PBX
13 4 (0.58%) DMZ
13 4 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
14 3 (0.44%) SSL
15 2 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (15.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 86 (12.55%) Power BI
3 59 (8.61%) MongoDB
4 41 (5.99%) Tableau
5 32 (4.67%) SQL Server
6 28 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.58%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.58%) Looker
11 4 (0.58%) Milvus
11 4 (0.58%) MySQL
11 4 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.44%) Metadata
12 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (3.80%) Git
2 12 (1.75%) JIRA
3 4 (0.58%) MLflow
3 4 (0.58%) Selenium
3 4 (0.58%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.44%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.44%) git-flow
4 3 (0.44%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.44%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.29%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.15%) ERwin
6 1 (0.15%) JMeter
6 1 (0.15%) Postman
6 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.15%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 323 (47.15%) Social Skills
2 67 (9.78%) Finance
3 27 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (2.63%) Marketing
5 15 (2.19%) Law
6 14 (2.04%) Legal
7 13 (1.90%) Retail
8 12 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (1.75%) Public Sector
9 9 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (0.88%) Advertising
10 6 (0.88%) Games
10 6 (0.88%) Multimedia
11 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.58%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.44%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.44%) Aviation
13 3 (0.44%) Banking
Job Titles
1 157 (22.92%) Developer
2 113 (16.50%) Analyst
3 107 (15.62%) IT Support
4 85 (12.41%) .NET Developer
5 82 (11.97%) Junior
6 77 (11.24%) Junior Analyst
7 71 (10.36%) IT Engineer
8 70 (10.22%) Senior
9 69 (10.07%) Support Engineer
10 57 (8.32%) IT Support Engineer
11 41 (5.99%) Security Analyst
12 38 (5.55%) Data Analyst
13 36 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 36 (5.26%) Ethical Hacker
13 36 (5.26%) Junior Data Analyst
13 36 (5.26%) Junior Security Analyst
13 36 (5.26%) Lead
14 32 (4.67%) Graduate
14 32 (4.67%) Network Engineer
15 31 (4.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (18.25%) .NET
2 102 (14.89%) .NET Core
3 81 (11.82%) ASP.NET
4 80 (11.68%) ASP.NET Core
5 72 (10.51%) CSS
6 66 (9.64%) HTML
7 54 (7.88%) RESTful
8 38 (5.55%) React
9 35 (5.11%) Entity Framework
10 32 (4.67%) ML.NET
11 31 (4.53%) Node.js
12 29 (4.23%) Blazor
13 27 (3.94%) Terraform
14 23 (3.36%) AngularJS
15 21 (3.07%) ASP.NET Web API
15 21 (3.07%) HTML5 Canvas
15 21 (3.07%) JSON
15 21 (3.07%) Vue
16 20 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
17 18 (2.63%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.69%) Driving Licence
2 38 (5.55%) Onboarding
3 36 (5.26%) Cyberattack
4 32 (4.67%) Cloud Native
5 16 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.61%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.02%) Digital TV
11 7 (1.02%) iPhone
12 6 (0.88%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.88%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.88%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.73%) BBC
13 5 (0.73%) CCTV
13 5 (0.73%) Clustering
13 5 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 152 (22.19%) Windows
2 89 (12.99%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.48%) Linux
4 14 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (1.75%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.46%) Android
6 10 (1.46%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.02%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.29%) Unix
9 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (22.19%) AI
2 151 (22.04%) Cybersecurity
3 129 (18.83%) Agile
4 110 (16.06%) Mentoring
5 104 (15.18%) DevOps
6 89 (12.99%) Business Intelligence
7 88 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (12.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 79 (11.53%) CI/CD
10 72 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 63 (9.20%) Machine Learning
12 52 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 46 (6.72%) Roadmaps
14 44 (6.42%) Computer Science
15 39 (5.69%) Service Delivery
15 39 (5.69%) User Experience
16 38 (5.55%) Cloud Security
17 37 (5.40%) ITIL
18 36 (5.26%) Ethical Hacking
18 36 (5.26%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 216 (31.53%) SQL
2 154 (22.48%) C#
3 116 (16.93%) Python
4 68 (9.93%) JavaScript
5 62 (9.05%) PowerShell
6 43 (6.28%) TypeScript
7 22 (3.21%) PHP
8 14 (2.04%) Java
9 10 (1.46%) C++
10 9 (1.31%) Bicep
10 9 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.73%) R
12 4 (0.58%) Bash
12 4 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.44%) Ruby
13 3 (0.44%) Rust
13 3 (0.44%) Scala
14 2 (0.29%) Go
15 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 187 (27.30%) Azure Certification
2 75 (10.95%) Degree
3 43 (6.28%) CompTIA Security+
4 38 (5.55%) Cisco Certification
5 36 (5.26%) CEH
5 36 (5.26%) CompTIA CySA+
6 31 (4.53%) CCNA
6 31 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (3.94%) Network+ Certification
8 15 (2.19%) Security Cleared
9 9 (1.31%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.31%) SC Cleared
10 8 (1.17%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.02%) CCNP
12 6 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.73%) CISSP
14 3 (0.44%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.53%) QA
2 27 (3.94%) SLA
3 26 (3.80%) GDPR
4 19 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.63%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.90%) NIST
7 10 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.31%) GRC
9 8 (1.17%) NCSC
10 7 (1.02%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.73%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 4 (0.58%) PMO
14 3 (0.44%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.15%) HL7
15 1 (0.15%) IFRS
15 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 145 (21.17%) Active Directory
2 40 (5.84%) Hyper-V
3 36 (5.26%) Docker
4 31 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.29%) vSphere
9 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 72 (10.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (6.13%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.73%) Ansible
4 4 (0.58%) SCCM
5 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Nessus
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 486 (70.95%) Microsoft
2 96 (14.01%) ForeScout
3 49 (7.15%) Cisco
4 36 (5.26%) VMware
5 28 (4.09%) Apple
6 23 (3.36%) Google
7 18 (2.63%) Adobe
8 14 (2.04%) Meraki
9 13 (1.90%) Facebook
10 12 (1.75%) Veeam
11 10 (1.46%) Databricks
12 9 (1.31%) ServiceNow
13 8 (1.17%) Ubiquiti
14 7 (1.02%) Fortinet
14 7 (1.02%) SonicWALL
15 5 (0.73%) ConnectWise
15 5 (0.73%) Epicor
15 5 (0.73%) Sony
15 5 (0.73%) Sophos
15 5 (0.73%) Yahoo!